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'''Henry Nicholas''' (or '''Hendrik Niclaes''', '''Heinrich Niclaes''') (c. 1501 - c. 1580) was the founder of the mystical Christian [[sect]] "[[Familists|Family of Love]]". |
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==Life== |
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He was born in 1501 or 1502, at [[Münster]], where he was married and was a prosperous merchant. |
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As a boy he was subject to visions, and at the age of twenty-seven charges of [[heresy]] led to his imprisonment. About 1530 he removed with his family to [[Amsterdam]], where he was again imprisoned on a charge of complicity in the [[Munster Rebellion|Munster revolution]] of 1534-1535. About 1539 he experienced a call to found his "Familia Caritatis." Moving to [[Emden]], he lived there and prospered in business for twenty years, though he travelled with commercial as well as missionary objects to the Netherlands, England and elsewhere. |
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Nicholas worked through powerful friends to bring about change: [[Christopher Plantin]], Abraham Ortel who called himself [[Ortelius]], and the genre painter and political cartoonist Pieter [[Brueghel the Elder]]. Niclaes sought to bring about a wider religious reformation in Europe through his [[Family of Love]]. His activities in England contributed to the ''[[Puritan]]'' controversies which formed the backdrop of the reign of [[Queen Elizabeth I]] of England. |
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The date of his sojourn in England has been placed as early as 1552 and as late as 1569. In 1579 he was living at [[Cologne]], where probably he died a year or two later. His doctrines seem to have been derived largely from the Dutch [[Anabaptist]] [[David Joris]], who died in 1556. |
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For twenty years (1540-1560) [[Emden]] was Nicholas' headquarters, with visits to [[England]] in 1552 or 1553. |
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==Work== |
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To this period at Emden belong most of his writings. His primary work was ''Den Spegel der Gherechticheit dorch den Geist der Liefden unde den vergodeden Menscit I-IN. uth de hernmelisc tie Warheit betuget''. It appeared in an English form with the authors revision, as ''An introduction to the holy Understanding of the Glasse of Righteousness'' (1575?; reprinted in 1649). The list of Nicholas' works occupies nearly six columns in the ''[[Dictionary of National Biography]]''. See also [[Ernest Belfort Bax]], ''Rise and Fall of the Anabaptists'', pp. 327-380 (1903); and [[John Strype]]'s ''Works, General Index''. |
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He signed his works with his initials "H.N.", which coincidently also stood for ''Homo Novus'', "new man", which became a sort of call sign for the movement. |
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== See also == |
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* [[Family of Love]] |
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== References == |
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[[Category:1500s births]] |
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[[Category:Tudor people]] |
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[[Category:German Anabaptists]] |
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